Improvement in belt-shippers



UNITED STATES PATENT QEETCE.

TOPIAN P. RODGERS, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BELT-SHIPPERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,956, dated September15, 1863.

To @ZZ whom it -may concern:

Be it known that I, T. P. RODGERS, of Taunton, in the county of Bristoland State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and ImprovedBeltShipper; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being A had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specitication, in which-Figure l is a vertical section of my invention, taken in the line .rtt', Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a belt-shipper which willprotect a belt passing through a tioor-that is to say, prevent chips,waste, and any substances that may bc upon the iioor passing through theopenings in the iioor through which the belt passes, and at the sametime admit of the door being flooded with water, if necessary, withouthaving the water pass down through the beltholes.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a floor, and B a belt, which passes through openings atherein, around a drh-ing-pulley, C, underneath the door, and around apulley, I), on the machine to be driven, above the floor. This belt maybe arranged and applied in the usual way, andl therefore does notrequire a minute description. The openings a in the tloor, one of whichis shown in Fig. 1, are of course equal in length to twice the width ofthe belt, in order to admit of the latter being shifted from theworking-pulley D upon the idle-pulley D,

and vice versa, and with the ordinary belt# shippers these openin gs areexposed, and any substances which may be on the door A are liable topass through them and fall between the belt, B and the pulleyT C, to thegrea-tinjury passing through it without touching or rubbing against itsinner surface, no unnecessary or extra space being allowed. The interiorof these boxes G, therefore, will be just one-half the dimensions of theopenings a. in the door A, and the boxes extend a suitable distanceabove the door. The plates E arc provided with holes c, which are equalin dimensions to the holes a in the floor. Each plate F is connected bya rod, d, to a lever, H, by which said plates F may be moved to cast thebelt B from the pulley D upon the pulley D', and vice versa. The platesE E and F F are made or cast separately, in order to admit of them beingplaced nearer together or farther apart, to suit the width of the spacebetween the belt, said space varying consid erably, owing to thediameter ot' the pulle \s over which the belt passes, and to thedistance ofthe pulleys from the iloor.

From the above description it will be seen that the boxes G, inconsequence of being only ot such dimensions as to admit of the belt Bpassing through them, will prevent substances which are on the door ormay fall upon the same from passing through; and it will also be seenthat the licor may be ooded with water to a height equal or nearly equalto the tops of the boxes without admitting the water to pass through thebelt-holes.

I would remark that the lever II may in certain cases be made to actupon the belt above the plates F, an ordinary shipper being used, forthe plates F will movev with the belt.

I would further remark that the invention maybe applied to cross beltsequally as well as to straight belts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The boxes G (one or more) connected to or cast with sliding plates F,iitted between suitable guides arranged' on plates E, or otherwise, insuch a manner as to admit of the boxes G, as the belt is shifted,working over the beltvopenings a. in the loor, substantially as and forthe purpose herein specified.

T. r. Eo'DGERs.

Vitnesses:

JGHN HOLLAND, THEoPHrLUs GAY.

